Taken by Force by Anna Argent

Author:Anna Argent [Argent, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781945292057
Publisher: Silver Script Media, LLC
Published: 2016-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

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Emily stayed crouched next to Mom, hidden beneath the basement stairs.

This level of the house was unfinished, with bare concrete floors and foundation walls. Wires and pipes ran overhead, mapping out the rooms above.

Whoever was up there was in her bedroom now.

She’d gone upstairs to grab some movies to watch on her laptop. Even though it had been against the rules that Radek said would keep them alive, she hadn’t thought that one little mission up the stairs would be such a big deal.

Until she saw him.

He was tall and skinny with bright yellow hair. His skin was a pasty white, and his eyes were huge and bloodshot. She’d only caught a glimpse of him through a narrow gap in the curtains, but it had been enough to tell her that he was bad news.

She’d raced down stairs, woken Mom and called Ava. In those few short minutes, whoever he was, he’d found a way into the house and was slowly trekking closer to the basement stairway.

Mom gripped the fireplace poker in her skinny hands. In a voice so quiet it could barely be heard a foot away, she said, “If he comes down here, you stay hidden. I’ll deal with him.”

Emily shook her head. Her neck was so tight with fear she could barely move it. “You’re too weak. Our only chance is to team up on him.”

Mom shifted so as to block Emily from being able to slip out between the boxes of food stacked everywhere. “Stay here. Stay silent. No matter what.”

Emily was about to argue when she heard the floorboards overhead creak.

He was getting closer.

There was no way anyone could know they were down here. There were no lights on. No noises.

Unless he could hear their hearts pounding.

He stopped again for a minute.

Was he looking at something? Listening for them?

She had no idea, but the silences were almost as terrifying as the idea of him moving closer.

If they’d had a gun, she would have shot through the floor and into his feet. That would have made him think twice about sticking around.

Of course, she didn’t have a gun, which she swore she would fix at the first opportunity.

Assuming she lived that long.

More creaks and groans brought him to the top of the stairs.

Sweat trickled down Emily’s brow and stung her eyes. She didn’t dare move enough to wipe it away for fear he’d hear her. Hell, for all she knew, he had some kind of super-hearing or X-ray vision.

The idea of him looking through the floor at her totally creeped her out.

She tightened her grip on her makeshift weapon—a kitchen knife she’d swiped on the way downstairs. It was short and serrated, but having it in her hand made her feel just enough better that she wasn’t sobbing in fear.

Please hurry, Ava.

Emily didn’t know how far away her sister was, but Ava always knew what to do in bad situations. She knew how to handle belligerent drunks, pissed off customers, and assholes like Beau. If anyone would know what to do during an alien invasion, it would be Ava.

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